Dear friends,
The Belgian Coalition for Abolition of Depleted Uranium Weapons invites you to give your help, your suggestions and, if possible, to participate to an international debate in Brussels, on the 1st of March. Please find below:
1.
Announcement of the meeting:
2.
Calendar of the three days activities in Brussels
3.
Call for your help and suggestions
4.
Contacts.
5.
Platform of the Coalition
University
of Brussels, 1st of March 2001
URANIUM
: The victims speak
Nato and the Western armies tried for a long time to hide the truth about Depleted Uranium and to isolate the victims. It is now time to bring all these victims together, and demand justice. In the very capital of the Nato, Brussels, an exceptional debate will give the word to :
BELGIUM
:
Guido
FLEURACKERS, contaminated soldier
Marc
DE CEULAER, contaminated soldier and leader of military trade union
Marleen
TEUGELS, investigation journalist (Knack) (invited)
Frederic
LOORE, investigation journalist (Journal du Samedi), author of La Guerre
invisible
Pierre
PIERART, professor (Association of Doctors against Nuclear War)
FRANCE
:
Herve
DESPLAT, contaminated soldier, founder of Association Avigolfe
Christine
ABDELKRIM-DELANNE : investigation journalist, author of La Sale Guerre
propre
IRAK : (Names will follow)
BOSNIA
:
Dr
Bojidar STAVROVIC (Sarajevo)
Dr
ILIC
Contact
taken for one victim
YUGOSLAVIA : (Names will follow)
KOSOVO : (Contact taken)
NETHERLANDS
:
XXX,
victim of the 1992 catastrophe in Amsterdam (Bijlmermeer)
Louis
BERTHOLLET, association of victims of Bijlmermeer
GREAT-BRITAIN
:
(Invited
: National Gulf Veterans and Families Association)
2. Full program of three days
We propose to those who can to stay a few days more in Brussels. It seems to us very important to organize a high level activity in the capital of Natgo, at this present time. Also We can provide you accomodation and transport in Belgium, and also contacts with the press.
This
is our full program:
Tuesday
27 evening or Wednesday 28 morning: arrival
Wednesday
28 : interviews, contacts with the press, contacts (following your wishes)
with Belgian medical institutions, experts and activists.
Thursday
1 (9 - 17) academic symposium in Brussels (Place will follow)
Thursday
evening : Great public debate
Friday
2 : privatte exchange of views between victims, associations and activists,
measures for future cooperation
Friday
2 evening or Saturday 3: departure.
3. How can you help?
1f Making suggestions to complete (very soon) this program
2f Participating
3f Helping for the cost: preparing the possibility of some small donations to cover the costs of some trips and some material expenses. Which are limited since every is benevolent but
4.
Contacts
The
representatives of the Coalition are:
- Marcel
Poznansky
Abolition.ua@c...
poznanski@c...
- Pierre
Pierart (Association of Doctors against Nuclear War):
pierre.pierart@p...
Michel
Collon is helping for the preparation of these three days:
michel.collon@s...
E-mails can be sent, for the next days, to these mail-address.
5. Our platform:
COALITION FOR ABOLITION OF DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONS
Depleted Uranium Weapons (D.U.) have been used during the wars in the Gulf, in Bosnia, in Yugoslavia by the Americans and the British or by Nato. D.U. weapons have been tested secretly since dozens of years in many army manoeuvres in the US, Great-Britain, France, Germany, Central America and Pacific. More than forty countries possess them.
D.U. is producing alpha radiations. When inhaled in the form of small particles, it becomes a factor of cancer and the risk is aggravated by different pollutions (tobacco, motor gas, industrial pollutions)
The general secretary of the Nato, George Robertson, supported by most of the national authorities of the member countries, is maintaining a complement incoherent position to exonerate the political and military leaders.
These weapons, chemical, radiological and non-discriminatory are polluting many places in the world. They are subject to the rule of law of armed conflicts (Declarations of St Petersburg 1868, The Hague 1899, Protocol of Geneva 1925, Declaration of the Conference in Paris 1989, U.N. Conventions concerning environment 1976)
In front of aggressions, often irreparable, against the health of the populations and the soldiers in Koweit, Irak, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia, it his now most necessary to form a coalition to demand abolition of the D.U. weapons.
The "Coalition for Abolition of Depleted Uranium Weapons" invites associations and political groups to participate or support this campaign. We are going to prepare with you a program of action to achieve that goal.
Informations:
Pierre
Pierart pierre.pierart@u... tel./fax: +32 2 376
10 93
Marcel
Poznanski poznanski@c... tel: 32 2 511 63 10 gsm 32 476
85 56 52
Editeur
responsable: Marc Lemaire, rue de la Ferme 118/4 BXL 1210,
bs603416@s...
gsm 32 475 80 31 88 Abolition.ua@c...
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